One Lap

Date: 10/05/2013

Day: 9

Location: Seattle, WA

Miles Today: 105

Total Miles:  1564

On to Seattle.

How To Make Money in the Northwest, The S'Klallam, Fat Smitty's, A Ferry Ride!, Seattle; Pike Place Market, Seattle; on the Street, One of the Advantages of Travel

How To Make Money in the Northwest

Drive through coffee places are not uncommon where the Colonel comes from, but in Oregon and Washington they are endemic.  The Colonel does not want to be the person selling the coffee; hiring all those teenagers would be a pain.  He wants to be the guy selling all those repurposed garden sheds. 



Notice how this one is protected from runaway drivers by steel pipe.

The S'Klallam

At first blush this looks like the best designed roadside rest stop you have ever seen.  It is that but it is also the S'Kallam tribal center with class rooms and meeting rooms, administration buildings and even a gym.  The Colonel is interested in living nowhere but the SF Bay Area -- but the Northwest would be a possibility if he had to move.  The north coast Indian imagery is wonderfully elegant.  They work in wood rather than ceramics and produce outstanding objects.  This particular group must have a large good taste gene.  The name is pronounced cla-la-lam and means, inevitably, "the strong people."

Classy public rest room

Classy bus stop

Might as well be howdy in Martian

Road side rest in Eden

 

Wall art.

 

Fat Smitty's

Had to stop, had to.  A hopped up roadside burger joint, of course, with the walls and ceiling festooned with one dollar bills.  Must make cleaning the place a challenge.

A burger to be worshiped!  See the eyes, nose and mouth.  On your knees, grasshopper!

 

A potato?  Perhaps a memory from a very bad dream.

Fat Smitty has pie!  And his coffee has a face!

 

A Ferry Ride!

Boat rides are always fun, so long as you don't get wet or have to pull on a rope.  Yes, you can get a gin and tonic on these ferries.  It's a half hour ride on the high enough seas from Bremerton to Seattle, $13.50 for most of you-all, $11.50 for us old folks.  Ha!

 

 

 

Mt Rainier, THE mountain hereabouts.  A rotten volcano, which is to say made of weakened rock ready to let go.  This is probably the most dangerous mountain in America.

Seattle; Pike Place Market

When one is a tourist, one should not be ashamed to do tourist things.  The Pike Place Market is a very high class tourist trap.  It has three floors of restaurants, shops and stalls.  TEE shirts and silly hats, of course, and really outstanding produce and fish mongers.  The latter are both quite expensive; do the locals shop here?  This is the place where the fish guys throw the product from one end of the stand to the other --"FISH!!!" --- to be wrapped.  Wherever you buy it, it is wrapped at the other end of the stand.  Flying salmon; we tourists love it!

The Colonel enjoyed a flat out wonderful Dungeness crab cocktail today and might go back for another tomorrow.  The guys at Fisherman's Warf in SF should do it so well.

I wish we had something like this where the Colonel lives.

Yes, but when they want really good Blue
cheese, where do they go?

If you can grow farm-fresh ocarinas, you get to wear a silly hat.  It's the law in Seattle.

If you know a bit about meat, you want to take this home, if not you probably want to see it interred.  Yum!

Seattle; on the Street

This is a picture of a young woman taking a picture of people standing in line to get into Starbucks.

Everyone makes fun of the poor Catholics.

A young woman being made up prior to a glam shot.

Oddly, none of the Colonels stuff was in this shop. Yet.  Mrs. Colonel is slow at the switch.
 

This in the sidewalk, not in a wall.  Of course.

One of the Advantages of Travel

Bathroom swag from the first week of One Lapping.  Not only does one get to travel, but Holiday shopping takes care of itself. 

 

 

Tomorrow; the Museums, then, the Midwest, we hope.

Wellington Boot, Col.